The Department of Chemical Engineering and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering (IIChE) organized the Promising Innovative and Young Chemical Engineers (PICE – 2017) on 26 March 2017. The main objectives of the event PICE-2017 were to motivate and appreciate the students for their creative work and let them think in a different way. The theme for the PICE-Award-2017 competition was ‘Chemical Engineering and Allied Areas: Innovative Ideas for National Wealth Creation’.

National Seminar on ‘Advances in Chemical Reactor Design’ February 27-28, 2017
The Department of Chemical Engineering organized a two day national seminar on “Advances in Chemical Reactor Design” sponsored by Savitribai Phule Pune University on February 27 and 28 2017. The main objective of the seminar was to share recent developments in chemical reactor design with the participants. The other objective of the program was to share knowledge and experience of experts from industry and research with the participants in this field.

Jagruti 2017
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering (IIChE) Student’s Chapter organized a Social Event ‘Jagruti 2017’ at Rule, Pune on February 05, 2017. The objective of the program was to create social awareness in the society. Students from SE, TE and BE Chemical Engineering explained the following topics to people from the village: solar energy, wind energy, energy saving in houses, rain water harvesting, use of fertilizers, waste water treatment, biogas, agriculture related government schemes, digital India and cashless transactions.

Students of Chemical Engineering Department explaining various socially relevant topics to the Villagers

Expert Lecture on ‘Mineralization : The safest way of storage of CO2
Department of Chemical Engineering organized an expert lecture regarding ‘Mineralization : The safest way of storage of CO2’ on 2nd February 2017 by Dr. Gaurav Bhaduri (School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University, UK).

Expert giving the Lecture

Convocation 2016
Department of Chemical Engineering organized Convocation 2016 for the pass out batch of 2016 on January 27, 2017

Meetings with Department Advisory Committee
Department of Chemical Engineering organinsed a meetings with Department Advisory Committee on October 01, 2016.

Dr B D Kulkarni Ex-Director of NCL Pune addressing to students

Mr Milind Talathi Direactor, Elantas Beck, Pune

addressing to Students

Engineering Today 2016

Every year Department of Chemical Engineering organizes a Technical Annual Event “Chemixir” under the head of AISSMS Engineering Today (A National Level Students’ Technical Symposium and Exposition). This year, Engineering Today was organized on 12-14 Sept 2016.

Participants during the event

Teachers Day 2016
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering (IIChE) Student’s Chapter organized Teachers day on September 02, 2016. On this day some students from TE and BE take the responsibility of teaching in order to show their appreciation for the teachers. Students also organized an event to honor the teachers.

Project Exhibition
Department of Chemical Engineering organized a Project Exhibition under IIChE Student’s Chapter, on March 30, 2016. BE Students explained the research which was conducted by them for BE Project.

Students from BE Chemical explaining their project research to Department Faculty

National Seminar on ‘Sustainable Technologies for Specialty and Fine Chemicals’ March 18-19, 2016
The Department of Chemical Engineering organized a two day national seminar on “Sustainable Technologies for Specialty and Fine Chemicals” sponsored by Savitribai Phule Pune University on March 18 and 19 2016. The main objective of the seminar was to explore the scope of specialty and fine chemicals market in India and the world. The other objective of the program was to share knowledge and experience of experts from industry and research with the participants in this field.

Dr. Yogendra Shastri, Professor Chemical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay lighting the lamp to inaugurate the Seminar on ‘Sustainable Technologies for Speciality and Fine Chemicals’ in the presence of

Jagruti 2016
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering (IIChE) Student’s Chapter organized a Social Event ‘Jagruti 2016’ at Rule, Pune on March 13, 2016. The objective of the program was to create social awareness in the society. Students from SE, TE and BE Chemical Engineering explained the following topics to people from the village: Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Energy Saving in Houses, Rain water harvesting, Use of Fertilizers, Waste Water Treatment, Bio Gas and Agriculture related Government Schemes.

Students of Chemical Engineering Department explaining various socially relevant topics to the Villagers

Workshop On “ Engineering Procurement & Construction and Recent Trends in Biodiesel”
The Department of Chemical Engineering along with IIChE organized a workshop on “ Engineering Procurement & Construction and Recent Trends in Biodiesel” on March 11, 2016. The speaker of the workshop was Mr Chetan B Sayankar (Project Manager/Consultant, GDL Engg India Pvt Ltd, Pune). The objective of the workshop was to provide knowledge of Engineering Procurement and project execution to the students.

Matlab Training
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) student’s chapter organized Matlab Training on 14-20 January 2016. MATLAB is a software development environment that offers high-performance numerical computation, data analysis, visualization capabilities and application development tools. Students from SE, TE and BE were involved in the program.

Inauguration of Matlab Training Program

Students learning Matlab Program

Engineering Today 2015
Every year Department of Chemical Engineering organizes a Technical Annual Event “Chemixir” under AISSMS Engineering Today (A National Level Students’ Technical Symposium and Exposition). This year, Engineering Today was organized on 13-15 Sept 2015. On the occasion of Engineers Day, the Department of Chemical Engineering organized Science Project Exhibition for students of 9th – 12th standards of SSPMS Day School, Pune on September 13, 2015. More than 250 school students visited the exhibition. The objective of the exhibition was to create awareness and interest in science among the school students through demonstration experiments. The Exhibition was inaugurated by Mr. Prataprao Pawar, Chairman, Sakal Papers Pvt. Limited. In the inaugural session, Mr. Prataprao Pawar expressed his views about Students development and benefits of Science for society. He also emphasized on apllications of science for betterment of society.

Teachers Day 2015
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering (IIChE) Student’s Chapter organized Teachers day on September 04, 2015. On this day some students from TE and BE take the responsibility of teaching in order to show their appreciation for the teachers. Students also organized an event to honor the teachers.

Faculty members from Department of Chemical Engineering for the Celebration of Teachers Day.

Fresher’s 2015
Students of SE Chemical Engineering Department and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) Student’s Chapter organized Fresher’s 2015 to welcome the newcomers of Chemical Engineering Department on August 21, 2015. The purpose of Fresher’s Day party was to welcome newcomers in a friendly atmosphere and avoid social evils like ragging and to encourage their creative impulses and boost their confidence.

Department of Chemical Engineering organized National Seminar on ‘Intensification of Chemical Processing using Novel Reactors’ on Jan 9-10 & 22, 2015. Intensification is an innovative concept applied to improve the productivity of chemical process plants using a sustainable approach. It can be considered as any chemical engineering development that leads to a substantially smaller, cleaner, more energy efficient technology. To optimize energy consumption at the same time giving environmental and safety benefits by radical reduction in the physical size of the plant or changes in the processes. Intensification can be achieved using multi functional equipment, increasing the rates of reaction by using novel reactors or completely newer energy sources. The aim of this Seminar was to discuss the various techniques, advancements in reactors and effective approach for process intensification of different physical and chemical processing applications. The following experts from academia, research and industries delivered talks during this seminar:

Role of process intensification towards sustainable process development

Dr Sandip Bankar

DST-INSPIRE Fellow

Bioprocessing of Biofuels

Industry

Dr Ulhas Joshi

Innocon Pvt Ltd

Multi solvent herbal extracts

Dr R N Khante

Shubhjyot Consulting Engineers Pvt Ltd

Catalytic hydrogenation

Shri S Konchady

Consultant
Praj Industries Ltd

Alcohol industry advances and challenges

Shri S Bhosale

Thermax Ltd

Water and waste water management

Shri R Deshpande

Vedic Supercriticals and Biotechnology Pvt Ltd

Supercritical Extractions

Lighting of the Lamp

Dignitaries on dais during inauguration

In Association with VESBE, Germany 2nd Indo-German Colloquium on ‘Water Management in India’
January 28-29, 2015

All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society (AISSMS), Pune in association with VESBE (Association for European Social Work, Education and Training), Germany organized 2nd Indo-German Colloquium on ‘Water Management in India’ on January 28-29, 2015. This two days colloquium discussed the issues related with water management in India. At present we are facing major challenges like availability of safe potable water, its equitable distribution to the masses, scientific management of wastewater and its reuse possibilities to reduce the increasing demand for potable water. About 80% of water is used for the ‘non-drinking’ purpose, which is resulting in wastewater generation. Little quantity of waste water is recycled and reused. However, recycle and reuse has not received much attention because of the lack of viable models, technology support and lack of sufficient trained and skilled manpower.

During the welcome address of Shri Malojiraje Chhhatrapati, Honorary Secretary AISSMS emphasized on the growing issues of water and associated management. The colloquium was inaugurated at the auspicious hands of Dr R R Sonde, Executive Vice President of Thermax Ltd. Dr Sonde talked about the growing issues of water and energy in India and the Globe. These issues need robust solutions. The Keynote address was derived by Shri Dayandand Panse, Secretary, Indian Water Works Association. He gave an overview of the water availability, growing population of India, projected demand and supply deficit of water India. He emphasized on simple techniques like rain water harvesting, water recycle and reuse to solve the problems of water to some extent. Dr Khante, Director, Shubhjyot Consultants Pvt Ltd discussed the innovative techniques for waste water treatment in industry. Research should be focused on technology based on utilization of abundant solar energy for the concentration of wastewater and extraction of valuable products. Shri Lalit Bajare, Nixie Engineers Pvt Ltd talked about the containerized reserve osmosis systems which are useful for reducing the space and processing time requirement for treatment of wastewater. Shri Shirpad Khatav, Managing Director, S S Techno Ltd discussed the techniques based on multiple effect evaporators for concentration of wastewater and recovery of value added products from the waste. This technique is useful for development of viable models for zero liquid discharge.

The special session was organized on the development of skilled manpower and professionals for water management. Dr Danao, Principal, AISSMS College of Engineering, Pune talked about availability of only 3% of fresh water in the world, and the need to use it optimally. Most of the wastewater projects are not running full capacity and maintenance issues due to the non-availability of skilled manpower. Ms Meinecke, International Project Manage, VESBE, Germany discussed the innovative program to develop skilled personnel. Mr Zaheer Ahmed Shariff, University of Stuttgart, Germany talked about technologies developed by Germany in waste management. Dyadic teaching methodology will be useful for development of manpower. Mr Thomas Burger, IAT, Stuttgart, Germany talked about the 3D simulation techniques as an effective tool to train manpower and how it will be useful in understanding the actual working of the plant. Poster and model making competition was organized for KG to PG students. Highly energetic students presented their talent and came up with innovative solutions for the growing concern of water management in India. This Colloquium provided an interactive platform for academicians, researchers, policy makers and industry personnel to provide viable and sustainable solution to society.

Dignities on the dais during Inauguration

Address by Dr R R Sonde, VP, Thermax Ltd

National Conference on ‘Frontier Technologies in Waste Management’January 15-17, 2014

ll India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society’s College of Engineering, Pune organized, ‘Three Day National Conference on ‘Frontier Technologies in Waste Management’ on January 15-17, 2014 in association with VESBE, Germany. This conference was sponsored by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi. The themes for the Conference were solid waste management, wastewater treatment, hazardous waste, recycling of waste and waste to energy. The Conference was inaugurated by Dr Saurav Pal, Director, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.

Dr Pal highlighted the issues related to waste management which is becoming one of the key issues in the modern world. The Keynote address for the Conference was delivered by Eminent Professor A B Pandit from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. Dr Pandit provided an insight into the emerging technologies for wastewater management that can work at atmospheric temperature and pressure conditions and better safety. During the afternoon session researchers from academia, industry and research institutes presented their work.

As a part of this Conference Indo-German Symposium ‘Urban Water Waste Management’ was organized. This Symposium was inaugurated by Shri Kiran Deshpande, Chief Technical Officer, Thermax Ltd. In the inaugural address, he highlighted the issues related to management of Urban Water in major cities in India, upcoming technologies for water management. Ms Annika Meinecke, International Project Manager, VESBE, Germany talked about the specialized courses for skilled and semi-skilled personnel for industry and urban wastewater management. Mr Zaheer Shariff, Research Scientist, University of Stuttgart, Germany demonstrated the model for training of skilled personnel. Mr Thomas Block, Managing Director, Remondis Aqua talked about the sludge reduction technologies for wastewater management. Mr V G Kulkarni, Superintending Engineer, Pune Municipal Corporation addressed the issues related to urban wastewater generation in Pune. Mr Anirban Sarkar, Chairman and Managing Director, Deccan Water Technologies Pvt Ltd, talked about the innovative technologies for Urban Wastewater Management. Mr Ajay Shinde, TUV India Ltd and Dr M R Shindikar, College of Engineering Pune gave a brief overview about the ‘Laws and legation’ for Wastewater Management in India.

On day three of Conference, Mr Ajit Joshi, Divisional Manager, Forbes Marshall talked about the quick measurement of Biological Oxygen Demand. Dr Kalyan Raman, General Manager, Thermax Ltd talked about the ‘Membrane Bioreactor’ which is an emerging technology for the Urban Wastewater Management. 75 participants from Industry, Academia and Research participated in the conference. The interactive sessions were helpful for all stakeholders from industry, academia and research.